The term "Jasmine Revolution" was used by the CIA to communicate during the coup of 1987 which placed Ben Ali in power.

9. We forget the good report given by the IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

And we forget the latest report of Transparency International which said that Tunisia was less corrupt than the states of the European Union such as Italy, Romania and Greece.

10. Ahmed Najib Chebbi, a pawn of the National Endowment for Democracy, has become Minister of Regional Development.

11. Amanou Slim, a blogger using the methods of the Albert Einstein Institute, has become Secretary of State for Youth and Sports.

12. The real seat of power is no longer at the Palace of the Republic, but at the Embassy of the United States.

Located outside of Tunis, in a vast campus, the embassy is a huge bunker that houses the highly secure central stations for the CIA and the MEPI North Africa and part of the Levant.

13. Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi prepares to arrive from London.

The following is our timeline:2000 - President Ben Ali broke all diplomatic ties with Israel

2003 - Ben Ali refused to take part in either of the two wars against Iraq.

2009 - Tunisia signed an economic and technical cooperation pact with China2009- Sakhr El Materi, chairman of the Tunisia-US Parliamentary Friendship Group, met the US ambassador at Materi's home (Tunisia: Dinner With Sakher El Materi - TuniLeaks) "The Ambassador raised economic liberalization, noting the importance of opening up to franchising."

2010 - A report (Transformation: Tunisia) notes: "Despite the formal abolition of trade barriers for industrial goods with the European Union as of 1 January 2008, in practice, Tunisia has seen too little progress in terms of trade liberalization."

May 2010- General William E. Ward, commander of U.S. Africa Command, visited Tunisia and met Tunisian Minister of Defense Ridha Grira.

October 2010-Sakhr El Materi, chairman of the Tunisia-US Parliamentary Friendship Group, had talks with top Americans in the Pentagon and the State Department.

November 2010 - A cable from the US embassy in Tunis released by wikileaks describes Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's family entourage as a "quasi Mafia" because of its "organized corruption".

Mohamed Bouazizi.He "set himself on fire outside the governor’s office".( Mohamed Bouazizi.) Orhe "set fire to himself at the bus station.""He had apparently decided to go to Tunis and talk to the president...(he) arrived at the bus station."(Tunisian riot town stands firm in its fury )17 December - Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old university graduate, reportedly set himself alight in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid in a protest over unemployment.

24 December 2010 - an important Washington think tank (Institute for Policy Studiesa) had an article about a possible change of regime in Tunisia (Foreign Policy In Focus.):"It would do Tunisians, even (Tunisian President) Ben Ali, well to recall how many US allies different American administrations have discarded…"

7 January 2011 - the Council on Foreign Relations's Elliott Abrams(Elliott Abrams: Is Tunisia Next?)seems to suggest that the fall of Ben Ali would be a good thing."Tunisians are clearly sick of looking at all the giant photos and paintings of Ben Ali that appear on walls, posters, and billboards all over the country...

"If Tunisia can move toward democracy, Algerians and Egyptians and even Libyans will wonder why they cannot."

8-10 January - More people die in three days of rioting.

Mysterious rooftop snipers are at work.

13 January - The army withdraws from Tunis, which remains occupied by special forces.The leaders of the North African branch of Al-Qaeda/the CIA call for the overthrow of Ben Ali.14 January - Ben Ali leaves the country.

The main reason Tunisia and Egypt's secular governments were overthrown by the c1a to encircle Libya in a millitary classic pincer movement and flood into Libya weapons and cash to Islamic fundemdalist proxy forces